Geofencing – Location based MDM restriction

Geofencing is a location-based service that lets you create a virtual fence around a geographical region. By creating geofences, administrators can restrict the availability of corporate resources on mobile devices as it enters or exits the virtual boundary. Hexnode MDM lets you define security policies based on the virtual perimeter created as a geofence, thereby preventing unauthorized people from accessing your corporate data.

Applying the Geofence policy

Login to your Hexnode MDM portal > Navigate to Policies tab > Click on New Policy to create a new one or click on any policy name to edit an existing one > Enter the Policy Name and Description in the provided fields.

Dynamic grouping with Geofencing

Dynamic groups automatically keep changing their member devices based on certain specified conditions. In dynamic grouping, devices move in and out of the group during the periodic group sync. Any device satisfying the conditions of a dynamic group at a time gets added to the group, and all the policies applied to the group takes effect automatically on every device in that group.

After choosing either All of the below conditions or Any of the below conditions, you can add one or more criteria from the Condition filters.

From the Location Filters, choose one or more locations while selecting either Include or Exclude to group devices to a specific region.

Click on the Preview button to view the list of devices that matches the criteria.

Click Save group to save the group details.

Note

The Include option enables you to apply any policy to a group of devices present in the selected region(s).

The Exclude option enables you to enforce any policy to a group of devices excluding the ones present in the selected region(s).

What happens when a device moves out of the specified fence or enters a restricted area?

When a device comes out of its specified fence or enters a restricted area, the device will be marked as non-compliant on the MDM console. You can configure Notifications settings so that the administrators, as well as the associated users, get notified via email upon the device non-compliance.

To enable notifications via email,

Login to your Hexnode MDM portal

Go to Admin tab > Notifications

Under Notify the administrators on, check the option Device out of Compliance.

You can also notify the users when a device goes out of compliance.
Under Notify the associated users on, check the option Device out of Compliance.